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Witnesses state a coyote and a roadrunner were near the scene
moments before this huge boulder fell to the road.
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left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)CentralMass
(15,265 posts)juxtaposed
(2,778 posts)SkatmanRoth
(843 posts)Engineers evaluating how to remove the huge mass of rock observed the side previously facing the Earth had the words:
"Kilroy was here"
stenciled in 6 inch high letters on it.
Stuart G
(38,458 posts)I met the creator and director of most of the Wiley E / Roadrunner cartoons once at an art gallery. It was only for about one minute, but he signed an autograph for me..
He was a class act, and won an academy award for best cartoon... That cartoon was called, "A Dot and a Line"
and guess what....Here it is ...."A Dot and A Line, A Romance in Lower Mathematics" 1965
Oh...you expected something else?....Here is the first Roadrunner / Wiley E Coyote cartoon....
give it a moment to load, it is not a you tube....it requires a short wait..(Wiley has been waiting to capture RR for 68 years..)
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2ep2kp
oasis
(49,480 posts)Laffy Kat
(16,392 posts)It always made me sad for Coyote.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,250 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,700 posts)VOX
(22,976 posts)Originally published in The New Yorker, February 26, 1990, P. 42, and it's an absolute hoot.
[Opening statement of an attorney for Wile E. Coyote, Plaintiff, -v.- Acme Company, Defendant.] Mr. Coyote states that on eighty-five occasions he has purchased of the Acme Company through that company's mail-order department, certain products which did cause him bodily injury due to defects in manufacture or improper cautionary labelling... Report of the Attending Physician of damage suffered by Mr. Coyote required a full bandage around the head (excluding the ears) a neck brace, and full or partial casts on all four legs... He has suffered mishaps with explosives: the Acme "Little Giant" firecrackers, the Acme Self-Guided Aerial Bomb, etc.... The Acme Spring-Powered Shoes...no explanation has been found for this product's sudden and extreme malfunction.... As the Court is no doubt aware, Defendant has a virtual monopoly of manufacture and sale of goods required by Mr. Coyote's work...a giant company is allowed to victimize the consumer in the most reckless and wrongful manner over and over again.... The Plaintiff seeks punitive damages of 38 million dollars, and to reaffirm the right of the individual predator to equal protection under the law.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1990/02/26/coyote-v-acme
ProfessorGAC
(65,381 posts)They always do.